Stefan Keller, Switzerland:
journalist and historian, Zurich; author of "Grüningers Fall", the book
which led to the rehabilitation of Paul Grüninger, chief of a cantonal
police force who had saved the lives a few hundred refugees, and to the
naming of a "Grüninger Lane", a "Grüninger Square" and a "Grüninger
Soccer Stadium".

Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado, Brazil:
History professor at the University of São Paulo; has published
original research on slavery, abolition, and the Agassiz Expedition to
Brazil; author of the book "Brazil through the Eyes of William James.
Letters, Diaries, and Drawings, 1865-1866", São Paulo.

Marcus Rediker: historian, writer,
teacher and political activist with focus on the history of the "Black
Atlantic". Author of – among others – "The Many-Headed Hydra", "The
Slave Ship" and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", Pittsburgh
(USA).